Along with Emotiv’s announcement of its gaming headset, the company today opens its Application Programming Interface, providing a range of development tools to facilitate developers to integrate neurotechnology into their creative projects. The plan will spur the adoption of brain computer interface technology in video gaming and other industries, enabling consumers to experience a new form of human to machine interaction.

The company has released two software development kits (SDKs) to support its Emotiv EPOC™ neuroheadset. The Emotiv SDKLite™ is a free, downloadable tool that provides developers with a complete development environment to take advantage of, and integrate seamlessly with, all the functionalities and features of the Emotiv EPOC. This pack allows developers without the headset to test their applications in a simulated environment.

Emotiv has also announced the availability of its full SDK. The SDK has been upgraded since it was first announced in March 2007 at last year’s GDC. The commercially available version of the kit now includes:

• 2 beta-version neuroheadsets

• Software toolkit that exposes the APIs

• Full access to detection libraries

• Suite of development tools for effective creation and integration of applications with content

For more information on the Emotiv headset click here for more details.